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Yakima Herald-Republic sports editor Jerrel Swenning has been elected vice chair of the Northwest Region.
Kevin Brown of the Everett Daily Herald became chair following the conclusion of the Northwest’s annual meeting. Don Shelton’s term expired.
Swenning has been the sports editor at the YH-R since 2004, when he was promoted from copy editor. During that time, the Herald-Republic sports department has won seven top-10 section awards and four honorable mentions.
Swenning worked his way up the ranks at the Herald-Republic since joining the newspaper in 1998. After a short stint on the news desk, where he moonlighted with the sports department, he became a sports copy editor.
The Seattle-area native is a 1996 graduate of Washington State University and worked in the sports department of The Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash., for two years after his stay on the Palouse.
